Palm Strip Mall

This small, whitewashed mall is one of the few open-air shopping centres in Dubai. Shops are set back from the road and arranged over two levels. Downstairs is dominated by a stylish Zara Home store, Starbucks coffee shop and Japengo restaurant, while upstairs you’ll find CD shop Music Master and the N.Bar (a nail bar). Other fashion outlets include Karen Millen, Young Designers Emporium and Escada Sport. Since it’s an open-air mall there’s no dire piped music, but there is also no air-con, making it quite uncomfortable in the peak summer months.